European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes april 1977 Navy planning break with tradition More sea duty reported in store for women by Bernard Gwertzman Washington not the in a major break from is qui etly seeking to assign More women to duly on a set of proposals by Secretary of the Navy Graham Claytor would allow women to land planes on aircraft carriers for the first time and serve temporarily on combat the which Are expected to been Dorset by the office of management and Are to be debated shortly in where the Navy expects a Strong traditionalist lobby to fight to keep women at the Law forbids assign ments to Navy women at sea except on Hospital ships and the pro posed changes would loosen the pro i although the Navy is not prepared to recommend permanent assignment of women to combat i can very definitely see women helicopter on a Utility say to a Carrier or delivering mall or spare parts or said James Holloway chief of naval opera i can Nee women pilots flying to a perhaps delivering a replace ment aircraft aboard the Landing delivering it and coming Back to they  be permanently a group of Navy women officers from Washington and san Diego has filed suit in District court to Over turn the 1948 Law which women May not be assigned to duty in aircraft that Are engaged in combat missions nor May they be assigned to duty on vessels of the Navy other than Hospital ship and they and other Navy women com Plain that the Law is that the Lack of sea duty hampers their careers and promotion opportunities and that women Are can handle virtually any task aboard a combat Claytorn proposals Are viewed by Many women officers As a Compromise that fails to meet the Issue of equal rights for Hollo the navys highest ranking offi said that the service was if to Welcome women on full fledged assignment aboard combat if the equal rights amendment were and women were permitted to serve in combat then the Navy would certainly move quickly to abide by the Law of the said the transition would have to be carefully anytime you have its a Little but the i Are no different from whats happening in College Dor Navy officials said that current proposals to change the Law were in Large by manpower problems and the realization within the Pentagon that recruiters were turning away skilled women because of the the Navy has women of whom Are doctors and and enlisted the navys total strength is about Claytor said that the aim of the pro posed change was to have a broader utilization of All of our under the he a woman can do temporary duty on a combat ship at peacetime or permanent duty on auxiliaries that Are not assigned to combat Spain to in 60 hours pm offers new autos speedboat racer plans after engine mix up Fosef Atlantic record Miami Beach a Veteran boat racer Bob Magoon has special plans for in dependence Day this he Hopes that on july 4 hell have just set a record by crossing the Atlantic Ocean by Motorboat in go Magoon plans to leave Spain july i in his specially 36foot outboard on the journey to the present record is held by the ton liner United which crossed the Atlantic in 82 40 minutes on its Maiden voyage in our biggest concern is hitting a whale at full said a Miami Beach his which can hit 60 m was built in Miami for the four 200 horsepower outboard engines drive the Magoon plans to run from Spain to the refuel at san Miguel and again at he will have to find a refuelling ship Midway through his five times the National offshore Magoon set a record for the Miami to new York run with a time of 22 41 minutes and is seconds in july lagoons navigator for the Spain new port trip will be Jack a 47 year old Miami heart Rick an Engineer for builder of the will be the third Crew a fourth Man has not been Detroit up beset by lawsuits and bad general motors said monday it will Exchange Oldsmobile and Pontiac equipped with Chevrolet v8 engines for new automobiles if the owners want pm said the cars involved Are 1977 models sold through april about 5 per cent of the million cars the automaker has sold during the 1977model Gas announcement that it was extend ing the Exchange plan nationwide was made in Detroit just hours after company attorneys had signed a consent order in Manhattan supreme court in new York City granting the Exchange to new York in pm has been sued by the attorneys general of 10 states for allegedly deceptive practices in putting the optional stars sparkle with needlepoint three famous opera Singer Shenata scotto left actress Singer Ethel Merman and actor Henry have at least one thing in common they like to do artistic creations by these and other celebrities Are on exhibit at the Light uie new York association for the in Money collected from admission to the show and Sale of the needlepoint goes to Aid victims of a photo Chevrolet engines in place of Oldsmobile or Buick another 17 lawsuits had been filed by private pm president Elliott Estes said the Exchange plan docs not change Gas intentions to contest the we believe that when All the facts Are we will prevail in the he if owners of the medium sized or compact sized Oldsmobile and Pontiac do not wish to Exchange their Chevrolet engine equipped cars for new they will be Given a special mechanical performance insurance it will cover the entire Power train transmission and rear Axle for Miles or three pm should the owners of the affected Auto mobiles decide to choose a new they will receive another new car of the same make with whatever engine is then Avail Able on that they will receive credit for the original Purchase Price less 8 cents for every mile the car has travelled since it was Pur customer satisfaction is goal Estes said the two plans Are being offered to make sure the customer is Satis fied with his pm product and not because there is any difference in Quality Between the Chevrolet engines and those built by the three pm unlike the other Auto pm has maintained there Are actual differences in the engines built by its five Sepa rate while Ford and Chrysler use Compa Nyen Gines in their entire pm has advertised its rocket v8 in the Oldsmobile and individual Pontiac and Buick in in there Are some Oldsmobile models in which a buyer cannot even get an Oldsmobile base Enyim in the compact Omega is a v6 Power Plant produced by the Buick division while the optional 305and 350inch v8 engines Are produced by the Chevrolet Paris reports Hartman to be new envoy Paris a assistant Secretary of stale Arthur Hartman will be named the new ambassador to it was re ported monday in the Krinch news Agency Agency France and the newspaper be Monde said that Hartman was the Choice of president there was no indication of the source for the